Rasuras em sala: Leitura, literatura de autoria feminina e sala de aula

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the importance of addressing female-authored literature in the classroom from a feminist studies perspective. For too long, female-authored writings have been neglected, erased, and silenced in our country. Therefore, there is a constant need to discuss texts written by women in literature classes, as well as their contexts of creation and circulation, with the aim of erasing this methodology that has been employed for years in schools. Thus, the writings of Simone de Beauvoir (1980), Zilda de Oliveira Freitas (2002), Jailma dos Santos Pedreira Moreira (2011), among others, will be used as the basic foundation for this work to discuss gender from a feminist perspective, female-authored writing, and women's literature in the classroom. We also draw on reflections by Italo Calvino (1992), Antoine Compagnon (1999), Jonathan Culler, and Tzvetan Todorov (2010), to discuss the concept of literature throughout time and its relationship to cultural production in society, from a critical cultural perspective. Regarding the concept of reading, we will draw on the theory of subjective reading proposed by Annie Rouxel (2012 and 2018). Thus, we seek to stimulate future discussions, reflections, and projects that value literature by female authors as an essential discursive force in the classroom. Even though it has long been silenced, erased, and considered outside the literary canon, this literature deserves its space and recognition.